Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
RAINBOW KIDS YOGA!!
Life is a collection of awesome strings of experiences. I had this beautiful experience in the week of March 19-22, 2009 with a fun loving group of people at NYC. I came across Rainbow Kids Yoga when I was browsing for something interesting to do for the Siragu kids in India. You all know that the Siragu Montessori School is a free school with an alternative system of education for homeless street children in Chennai, SouthEast India.
When I came across their website, it took me only a few minutes to decide to take the teacher training course. The peace I felt when I met Gopala the first time was contagious. The other wonderful people who joined the training were all so energetic and loving. I could see their eagerness to learn and share their knowledge with the kids they'd go back to.
The playfulness of the group was inspiring and Gopala had brought out the child in all of us. We all left our adulthood outside and interacted with each other as kids. The atmosphere was filled with fun and learning alternating in a smooth flowing way.
We learned a lot of fun poses for kids and family and Gopala taught us to integrate yoga poses in the kids' stories and also gave us each 5 minutes to conduct a class of our own on the last day of training. Creativity flowed as each one of us got a hands on the teaching and the rest acted like kids trying to create a real atmosphere of teaching kids. It was fun trying to distract the teacher and trying to cope up with distracting kids and engaging them while the assignment was going on. It was so much fun! We laughed so much and enjoyed every single moment of the training. By the fourth day, even though we were exhausted, we went with the flow and did not feel it a lot.
I could go more and more about the whole experience but I think after all this learning, it is up to us to practice it and share it with the world outside. I intend to prepare a curriculum and teach the kids at Siragu School next time i go to India.
you can also see pictures here.
Monday, February 23, 2009
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes!!
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Piks from the health care 2009!!!
You can check out Dr.Ralph's collage about the Health care Intensive 2009 from the following link...
http://www.naturalworldhealing.com/images/Gesundheit_pics_from_Ralph_Wilson_Feb_2009.pdf
Patch Adams on fun and friendship...
Patch talks about a hospital that includes alternative medicine, and he includes homeopathy and acupuncture. Here is text from his essay:
Vision for a Free Hospital Based on Fun and Friendship
by Patch Adams
I entered medical school in 1967 to use medicine as a vehicle for social change. I used my free time to study the history of health care delivery around the world and to look at contemporary models with the idea of creating a medical model that would address all the problems of the way care is delivered. I didn't intend to create a model that would be the answer to the problems; but to model creative problem solving, and to spark each medical facility to design their own ideal rather than succumb to the garbage of managed care, or a resignation to the impossibility of humanistic care. Beginning in the climate of the political "war on poverty," I felt confident that a free hospital to serve the poorest state, West Virginia, would find easy funding and that we would be built in four years. I smile writing this as we enter our 33rd year without having broken ground on the hospital. However, we have asked our architect to go to finished drawings so that we can begin building as soon as we have funding in hand. None of the journey has gone as I imagined and the vision is so much deeper, more comprehensive and far-reaching as a consequence of such deliberate progress.
The original vision had all the principles we have maintained all these years. There would be no charge for the care. Barter was also not an option. In fact, we wanted to eliminate the idea of debt in the medical interaction as a way to begin recreating human community. We didn't want people to think they owed something; we wanted them to think...for more click here.Friday, February 06, 2009
Endless skies...
A wish that I made turned into a cloud yesterday...waiting to manifest itself into the wish I made...
from above...
the rain it might bring down to my earth...
so i can share my wish with everyone!!
HEALTH CARE INTENSIVE - BALTIMORE
Well, for starters, there is a group of loving people who are struggling to redesign Health care and make it a care system...for all!!
We recently went to a Health care Intensive conducted by Dr. Patch Adams and the School for Designing a Society in Baltimore, Maryland for four days.
There were so many activities, lectures and presentations made by loving doctors who are creating waves of love in the society here.
I want to connect you to their blog so you can read all about it...
please visit http://patchadams.org/blog/84
Friday, January 30, 2009
Fusion of Contradictions- Part II
Continued from Fusion of Contradictions -part I...
On the other hand artificiality is perceived in an altogether different manner by the intellectual community; ‘any manmade material form is artificial’, which includes innumerable commodities, all the means of production such as machines and also certain modes of communication such as languages.
In this sense when the so called scientific community endeavors towards identification of decaying properties in the non-decaying materials to get an axis with nature, the so called intellectual community endeavors towards rejection of all the inorganic and synthetic substances and tries to inhabit upon all the living things to emphasize the notion ‘natural’.
The society as a whole tends towards innumerable debates and controversies and on the practical side stresses upon the usage of more organic substances while rejection of inorganic and synthetic commodities. When this trend of rejection of synthetic commodities is quite successful in the less populated countries but seldom could be adopted on all the practical means in the overpopulated countries. At the same time the usage of synthetic materials seeps into the society in multifarious direct and indirect applications when the human society is unconsciously entangled and could not find an escape route from the so called ‘artificial’, in other words got trapped with the ‘artificial’.
By the same time the consumption of innumerable inorganic substances as medicines when they do not have a decaying process along with the metabolic functioning of the human body, thereby greatly increase the proportion of ‘artificial’ in each and every human physiology thereby greatly reducing the proportion of natural.
On the other hand, ignoring the objective realities of ‘artificial’ the wider encouragement for the usage of organic substances, as if turning the lives towards ‘natural life’ is nothing but an ‘absurdity’ and such attitudes have greatly increased the further etching of nature thereby rupture of great natural processes for the sake of pseudo mental satisfaction while enjoying human comforts and physical facilities coupled with stupidity in the understanding of ‘artificial’.
In this sense, the production of organic substances and materials in multifarious bizarre forms and to conclude that as the expressions of natural and aesthetic sensitivity indicates yet another sheer absurdity associated with ignorance of the understanding of ‘artificial and natural’ and thus indicating such expressions as a whole towards crude insensitivity with respect to nature.
Now the tendency of the intellectual community in all the practicalities to adopt all the artificial substances invented by the scientific community and at the same time while projecting themselves as nature lovers by various productive expressions, indicates a sheer pretension and the exploitation of not only all the human values but also all the gentle, delicate and true sensitivity of the society and therefore it becomes an inevitability to define artificiality from an altogether different plane.
Almost all the practices and especially all the scientific practices of the society, as on today, sharpen the question, ‘whether man belongs to nature or nature belongs to man?’
The true richness and the synchronism of nature could be understood only if a situation of nature independent of human could be imagined. At the same time only the same synchronism of nature and the great metabolic activities of nature have created humans on this earth and the purpose of which is best known only to nature. It is an obvious fact that man can never survive even a moment without nature around, which is being consistently utilized, enjoyed, caressed, explored, amazed, protected, exploited, destructed and destroyed.
That is in the great course of multifarious forms of interaction of man with nature, it could be understood that there is a great mutual exchange between man and nature.
The true distinction between artificiality and natural could be discerned only with the perception of nature on its own and the right of nature to exist as ‘something in itself’.
With this understanding we can now try to define natural and artificial;
On the great course of consistent mutual exchange between nature and mankind, all the perceptions and practices that are providing advantages to man and disadvantages to nature are ‘artificial’; the exchange becomes unfair and thus would lead the mind-set towards destruction of ‘self’ and the mankind towards self destruction.
But at the same time all such exchanges that have been assumed as giving advantages to man while giving disadvantages to nature are in a true sense giving only disadvantages to man with a simple fact that man can never survive without nature.
All the perceptions and practices that provide mutual advantages on such an exchange only would be ‘natural’; when the exchange becomes fair and would lead the mind-set towards realization of ‘self’ and the mankind towards ‘existence’ and live in harmony with nature.
In the process of ‘self realization’ that is widely known as ‘soul realization’, one can never avoid the above said reality in cultivating the mind and practices to distinguish the artificiality and natural in the mind, which is the origin for all the artificial practices and thus becomes the great barrier in the realization of soul.
All naturals in mind and practices would lead towards ‘realization of soul’; whereas all artificial in mind and practices would lead towards ‘destruction of soul’.
Humans make great many exchanges among themselves when one part of such an exchange may become advantageous and the other may become disadvantageous and this exploiting attitude is being recognized as the intelligence of the one who becomes advantageous.
But the reality is that the advantage attained by a man or a group of people while providing disadvantage to another man or group could never be recognized as intelligence; but could be only recognized as stupidity since the man who is recognized with the so called intelligence, is in fact giving disadvantage to his self by actually killing his soul.
The conceptualization of the contradiction between artificial and natural could only be done on a very broader sense and could never be carried out within the narrow limits of plastic commodities and wooden commodities, when this attitude shows yet another absurdity in the productive practices of mankind.
On the other hand when man is nothing but the product of nature and simply nature is the origin of all the multitudes of artificialities, in the great course of development of nature along with mankind all the artificial become a part of nature on an interaction towards a ‘unity’ and on considering the dynamism of further growth of mankind along with nature there happens a ‘fusion of the contradiction’ between ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ and when man is a form of nature, then it becomes an obvious fact that ‘artificial’ is also a form of ‘nature’.
Fusion of Contradictions- Part I
Artificial-Natural It would not be an exaggeration that on all the efforts in defining and redefining the conception of ‘living’, a great importance had been endorsed upon one of the most significant aspect known as ‘soul’ in the great course of human history.
There had been the emergence of distinct schools of thought exactly opposite to each other and opposing philosophies and opposing ideologies in the conceptualization of ‘soul’ and the objective realities of existence.
The emergence of such exactly opposite values and the equal recognition they could attain in the course of development of mankind, it is evident that the quest for truth is inherent in the mankind that expresses an innate feeling for harmony.
In the search for truth there is inevitability for the correct inference of ‘untruth’, only which would distinguish the ‘truth’ with clarity.
The search for truth is mostly associated with the concept of ‘soul’; that accommodates in it also the objective realities of the world, which in turn encompasses the subjective contradictions in the objective world.
In the search for defining ‘living’ and realization of ‘soul’, human mind crosses several contradictions; one fundamental among which is the contradiction between ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ in the mind and practices of people.
The mankind in its course of growth has an inevitability to be compatible with nature to retain the very existence.
But in the course of growth an attitude of haste and aggression infiltrated in the mankind that is a tendency of opposing nature, both in the practices and also in the mind set of the people. This tendency is known as ‘artificiality’.
But on a generalized stand point, man is nothing but a product of nature and in this view whatever man does must also be natural.
But it has been widely recognized that whatever man does is artificial.
We recognize the nest of a bird as natural; a termite mound as natural; a bee hive as natural; a spider’s web as natural. But if a man builds a house then we normally say it as artificial.
In such a state of affairs it becomes necessary to distinguish the line of division between the artificial and natural, with lucidity.
In the struggle for survival at first man had made attempts to understand nature to adapt himself and also for protecting him for ensuring his survival. In the due course he became better comfortable with nature and started using it for his further comforts and also realized his inadequacy in the understanding of nature, when he formed groups towards organizing the search for solutions for various problems, when a tendency of fighting the insecurity in life became primary focus towards monopolizing the so called natural resources, which paved way for betterment of living standards and also productivity, focusing on trade and commerce. Abundant methods and means of production instigated various autonomous and isolated institutional structures while greatly curtailing human freedom due to the fetters of the so called institutional structures.
In the due course, the institutional structures became the depiction of authority, direction, regulation, guidance and so on when all the practices of the human race became focused towards strengthening the so called institutions, essentially economically, which had been assumed as the only means to attain the so called authority, thus getting far deviated from humanity, when the individual humans had no other option but to become slaves for the institutions of various forms and at times even countries turning out to be institutions.
The so called institutional structures of various forms oriented towards security, authority, power and economics did not permit even several heads and the members of the institutions to practice humanity, love, compassion and all those great virtues of mankind but to get involved in various acts against the conscience crossing various ethical and moral barriers with reduced sensitivity and increasing ignorance, while coining a tricky word known as ‘duty’ for obstinately justifying such ignorance. It is also a bitter fact that man is forced to compromise and overlook even his self respect on various occasions due to the institutional compulsions.
That is human invented institutions for his own alleviation to get organized and he got trapped with his own invention towards destruction of ‘self’.
On the other hand mankind invented a lot of means to enhance and betterment of living and the so called comfort ability. With all those inventions and various means for hurried usage of nature towards more and more comfort ability and establishment of authority, almost all the practices of man got focused towards exploitation of nature in a hasty manner.
That is, mankind invented a lot of technologies and gadgets to improve living towards more and more sophistication resulting in a very big question that, ‘where exactly are we heading towards?’
It is obvious that mankind is heading towards self destruction.
Now on the view point of the knowledge and practices of the human society, ‘artificial’ could be defined as something which is invented by man as the product of ignorance coupled with selfishness to get himself trapped in the due course towards destruction of ‘self’ and on the human society as a whole towards ‘self destruction’ and pseudo living.
In the same sense, ‘Natural’ could be defined as something which is invented by man as the product of awareness of the ignorance coupled with selflessness that elevates him towards an upper plane of consciousness and realization of ‘self’ and on the human society as a whole towards ‘existence’ and true living.
With such an understanding of natural and artificial when both of these prevail in the mind and practices of the society, a normally justified and accepted notion through the scientific perceptions is that, whatever materials invented by man that do not decay on natural course are known as artificial.
To be continued...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
TIME-BOUND?
A whole new set of responsibilities to take care of...
where have we been so long..time doesn't exist anymore? or does it?
Is the passing of time connected to the restlessness and the fire that is building up within?
Or is time just an illusion to add to the already existing chaos?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Post-production Complete
Ok, here we go...we are done with post-production, just a few minor tweaks on the DVD authoring. And time to get on the festival circuit soon. Watch for updates.
Thanks to everyone on the team for your production support. Also thanks to Eight AV Inc for their production and post-production gear. We may have a trailer, but do we need it? Considering the film's TRT is 6:30. Anyways...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Chasm in Time - New, Renamed Short Film Updates
Renamed. Yes, folks, as expected. The next production of Accessible Horizon Films has been changed from Contrast to 'A Chasm in Time'. Some updates and new pictures here. The rough cut has been completed and the soundtrack is currently being designed. Nanda is helping with the music. It's coming out almost as planned save a few aspects. The performances seem to be in sync - let's see. Also, DP Fruto Corre has done a great job.Here are some new Production Stills - Bottom to Top
Production Still 1(left to right) - Karthik Srinivasan, Mani, Robert Dixon, Ramesh Mourthy, Raghu Jeganathan and Mohandass Radhakrishnan behind the Jib, Fruto Corre(DP).
Production Still 2(left to right) - The entire Cast(left to right) - Karthik Srinivasan, Nelson, Joey Mintz and Kymm Walker
Watch out for updates...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
New Short Film - Contrast
Last Saturday, we finished filming our new short film, which is tentatively titled Contrast. Quite a fun day - most of it went according to plan except for a power snafu which delayed us by an hour. But thankfully we figured it out and sort of wrapped up at around 6 p.m. Fruto Corre was our DP, he sat with me the previous night and we figured out the whole shotlist. Even then, it was quite tough, managing the shots and finishing them. Great team work though. Ramesh Mourthy, Mohandass Radhakrishnan and Kousalya Jeganathan - the co-producers of the film were taking care of general production and location contingencies. Ramesh greased his Branded T-shirt by getting under a trailer collecting leaves...?Jib Operator Rob Dixon was of great help during the shoot. We got some decent shots hopefully, gotta check 'em out while doing the rough cut tomorrow. Mani, Kavitha and Lana were also lending their hands to the production. Of course, the actors, Kymm Walker, Karthik Srinivasan, Nelson and Joey Mintz did great - contributing to some funny moments with Karthik's "You hit his Brand-New-Used-Car man...!" Classic. And gotta thank Nanda Nayar for his production gear - camera, dolly and tripod. On the whole, amazing day, good shoot, although we could've done better.
Photo: Left to Right - Mohandass, Fruto Corre, Robert Dixon, Ramesh and Raghu.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
ReelChanges- Audience Funded Documentaries
ReelChanges.org is owned and operated by the Center for Media Change, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit corporation based in Palo Alto, California. The mission of the Center for Media Change, Inc. is to enrich our culture by facilitating the creation and distribution of more high-quality documentaries. Contributions to the Center for Media Change, Inc. and to individual documentary projects posted and displayed on the site are tax deductible as allowed under U.S. federal law.
So, what are we waiting for?
Let us create change, propose a socially relevant documentary and get help from the world to make films!
Event-Youth Career Fair - New York City
We recently went to a youth career fair conducted by Idealist.org aka Action Without Borders which is an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, connect with other people, organizations and resources and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.
In the youth fair, children from various schools could come and register in various non-profit and not-for-profit organizations for volunteering positions. It was such an inspiration to see children at such young ages interested in the welfare of the society around them. Some children had come with their teachers to the event and signed up for events in groups.
There were many large canvases where the attendees of the event could write positive and inspiring messages which was later being displayed in a Summit which the Mayor of NYC attended. Children were very eager to write and color their messages and happily painted some positive images.
The list of the organizations that participated in the event is as follows.
RelightNY’s mission is to inform and inspire people that the seemingly unachievable task of helping to protect the earth’s environment for current and future generations can be achieved collectively by the small but tangible action of changing a light bulb!
Prospect Park is a 585-acre urban oasis located in the heart of Brooklyn, New York City’s most populous borough. The masterpiece of famed landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also designed Central Park, Prospect Park features the 90-acre Long Meadow, the 60-acre Lake and Brooklyn’s only forest.
Members of Global Citizen Corps:
- learn more about global poverty and how it links to other global issues
- exchange ideas and resources with other youth around the country
- talk with anti-poverty experts
- find new ways to take action
- build a powerful movement for change
The Action Center to End World Hunger uses hunger as an organizing symbol of poverty, helping to explain and illustrate the challenges that lay behind it, such as poor agricultural practices, inefficient markets, weak health and education services, environmental degradation, conflict, and lack of access to clean water. By identifying and highlighting these underlying issues, the Action Center seeks to generate the public will necessary to end hunger in our lifetimes.
Mercy corps believe in the intrinsic value and dignity of human life.
They are awed by human resilience, and believe in the ability of all people to thrive, not just exist.
They believe that all our spiritual and humanitarian values compel us to act.
They believe that all people have the right to live in peaceful communities and participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives.
They believe that human imagination and energy can inspire innovative solutions to any problem, no matter how intractable.
They believe that it is our duty to be effective stewards of the financial resources entrusted to us.
HELP USA is a national not-for-profit organization with a mission to empower the homeless and others in need to become and remain self-reliant. Through the development of quality housing with on-site support services HELP USA provides resources for its residents to become independent and productive. We break the cycle of dependency by addressing underlying causes in a way that respects the dignity of those we serve. We help our clients help themselves. Living in a pleasant, safe environment elevates clients’ expectations for themselves, and motivates them to realize their full potential.
READ employs one-on-one research-based reading instruction to prepare at-risk children to become proficient readers. READ recruits, trains and employs teens to teach reading skills to young children who are struggling with learning to read.
As an ethical culture community, this organization believes that:
- We are all part of something that transcends the individual experience
- We have responsibilities to each other, to the Society, and to the community at large
- We are enriched through our interconnectedness with others
- We find confirmation and validation of our own selves and beliefs through our interactions with others
- We derive strength through our relationships with others
The HSUS seeks a humane and sustainable world for all animals—a world that will also benefit people. They are America's mainstream force against cruelty, exploitation and neglect, as well as the most trusted voice extolling the human-animal bond.
10. www.cityyear.org
City Year seeks to:
- Help children succeed
- Build stronger communities
- Break down social barriers
- Develop young leaders
- Foster active citizenship
Make a Difference is now HandsOn Greater Phoenix which is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization that empowers people to become engaged, take action and create positive change in their communities.
AFSC's work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
The Mayor's Volunteer Center and United Way New York City are proud to present VolunteerNYC.org to serve the dual purpose of providing meaningful volunteer opportunities for New Yorkers and providing nonprofit organizations in New York City the opportunity to post their volunteer needs and publicize the services provided by their organizations.
MillionTreesNYC, one of the 127 PlaNYC initiatives, is a citywide, public-private program with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across the City's five boroughs over the next decade. By planting one million trees, New York City can increase its urban forest—our most valuable environmental asset made up of street trees, park trees, and trees on public, private and commercial land—by an astounding 20%, while achieving the many quality-of-life benefits that come with planting trees. The City of New York will plant 60% of trees in parks and other public spaces. The other 40% will come from private organizations, homeowners, and community organizations.
15. www.justell.org
Just Tell visualizes a world in which children who are molested immediately turn to a trusted adult figure in their lives and tell them of the abuse. That trusted adult has information to help the child though the next steps so that the abuse is stopped and the abuser is prevented from harming other children.
In their vision, children do not have to bear the scars of unrevealed and repeated abuse, the consequences of which have been repeatedly shown to include higher-than-average rates of: drug and alcohol abuse, self-destructive behaviors, guilt and shame.
16. www.ncac.org
NCAC's Purpose is:
• To promote and defend First Amendment values of freedom of thought, inquiry and expression.
• To oppose restraints on open communication and to support access to information.
• To encourage, support and coordinate activities of national organizations in opposition to censorship.
• To encourage understanding that restrictions on the free interchange of ideas threaten religious, moral, political, artistic and intellectual freedom.
17. www.girights.org
The GI Rights is a coalition of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations who provide information to members of the military about discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights.
18. www.centeronconscience.org
CCW is a faith based organization that advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war.
The Ya-Ya Network is a citywide anti-racist, anti-sexist organization and allies with the LGBTQ community. Ya-Ya is staffed by young activists ages 15-19. We work with other youth, adult allies, youth programs & activist organizations. We help groups & individuals connect. We share information & resources & we support the work that other groups are doing. All to build a stronger voice for young people in the movement for social & economic justice.
20. www.objector.org
CCCO supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
The Board is responsible under New York State Election Law for the following:
- Voter registration, outreach and processing
- Maintain and update voter records
- Processing and verification of candidate petitions/documents
- Campaign finance disclosures of candidates and campaign committees
- Recruiting, training and assigning the various Election Day officers to conduct elections
- Operate poll site locations
- Ensure each voter their right to vote at the polls or by absentee ballot
- Canvassing and certification of the vote
- Voter education, notification and dissemination of election information
- Preparation of maps of various political subdivisions
22. www.childrenforchildren.org
Children for Children mobilizes the energy, ingenuity and compassion of young people, beginning at an early age, to discover their power and potential to solve real world problems through volunteer opportunities and service learning programs that instill a lifelong commitment to service.
23. www.18in08.com
Children for Children mobilizes the energy, ingenuity and compassion of young people, beginning at an early age, to discover their power and potential to solve real world problems through volunteer opportunities and service learning programs that instill a lifelong commitment to service.
24. Service We Trust.
Please take some time to go through the activities in the websites and try to make a difference TODAY! The world needs action from you...Today!!!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
About NYC Screening Event - Sept 20th,2008
As you all know we had this fund raiser screening at the TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER on September 20th, 2008. It was a very beautiful experience though we had a turn up of only 9 people and it was 14 including us!!Each person who had come for the movie liked Wings of Evolution so much and said that it touched their hearts. They said they were inspired by the love that Uma & Muthuram had for the kids and how the kids were so mature and wonderful. We got some more leads with regards to screening the film in other venues like schools, universities etc.
We got a chance to have one-on-one connections with every single person who attended the screening which was very unique. To know about people who love the world so much and who are trying to make differences in their own way was such a positive experience!
I know I did not write about the Urbana, Champaign screening which took place at the Independent Media Center through the School for Designing a Society. It went very well and the film inspired a lot of students who came for the screening. There was a teacher from Korea Ena who was interested in visiting the Siragu School for sometime because she said she wanted to learn about their pattern of teaching. Many of them wanted to visit the School personally and learn a lot. They were also impressed by the kids' strength of mind and their knowledge about the world around them.
More screenings will come and we will create a world-wide awareness till kids all over the world are educated for free.
One of my friends gave me a book called Three Cups of Tea about which I will write another article!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Our Friends at AIF
Our friends at America India Foundation are organizing a fundraiser event in NYC on the 25th of September, 2008. Please show your support for the cause. Details below.
*American India Foundation*
*New York Young Professionals Chapter* cordially invites you to the *Your Voice for the Cause* Event
Benefiting
NYYPC's 2009 Initiative*
*Please join us for an evening dedicated to** determining our 2009
fundraising initiative- *
*learn about the 3 potential fundraising initiativesfor 2009 and share your
thoughts.*
*Thursday, September** 25th *
September 25th
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New York, New York 10014
*7PM-10PM*
Open Bar & Hors d'oeuvres
Online tickets<http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=166671>-
$40, At the door - $45
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** ** A portion of the evening's proceeds will be donated towards
the NYYPC's 2009 fundraising initiative.
*The NYYPC was established in early 2007 and has been sustained by a group
of young professionals focused on educating their fellow peers *
*about AIF's mission to accelerate social and economic change in India, and
maintaining the awareness for future generations. *